Improved vegetable-washer



113W. BACON. VBGETABLE' WASHER.

Patented June 27,1865.

UN,ITED STATESM PATENT OFFICE.

E. W. BACON, OE NEW YORK, N. Y., AssreNoE To TEE NEW YORK DEsroeA'rINe COMPANY OE NEW YORK.

juf y., M PRQVED VEG ETABLE-WASHER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 118,477, dated June 27, 1865.

To all whom it may concern: l

A Be it known that I, F. W. BACON, ofthe city, county, and State 4ot New York, have invented a new and` Improved Machine for lWashing Vegetables; and I do hereby declare `that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the `same,`\reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this speciica'tion',-in which-- Figure 1 is a central longitudinal verticall sectionof the machine. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section of'the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspending parts in both figures.

This machine is composed otl a rotating eylindrical cage containin g one or more spirallyformed grats, extending from end to end and from the centraishai't to `the'circumference, for the purpose of producing a movement of the vegetables from one end of the cage to the other as it rotates in a tank of water.

` end of the shaft.

To enable others to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe it with reference to the drawings.

The rotating cage is composed of two circlilar heads, A A, of iron or wood, united by longitudinal Wires or rods a a, arranged in the form of a cylinder and strengthened at intervals by bands Z b. The heads A A are lirmly secured to the hollow central horizontal shaft, B, which extends right through the cage and is supported in suitable bearings in a frame, C. The spirally-formed grat-es D D, ofwhich two are represented, are composed of'rods or wires arranged radially to the shaft, and each connected at one-end with the shaft and at the other with the rods or wires a auf the cage. These grates extend from one end to the other, and theinterstices between its rods orwires are, like those between the Vwires or rods ofthe cage, of such width that the vegetables to be washed cannot pass between them.

Vvided with suitable doors or sh-utters.

The hollow central shaft, B, is open at one end for the. entrance of a stationary pipe, through which the clean water for washing is admitted into the said shaft, to issue in numerous small jets or streams from the perforations ff in that, portion of the shaft between the heads of the cage. The stationary pipe should enter the open end ofthe shaft through a stuff ing-box.

Rotary motion is given ,to the central shaft, B, to produce the rotary mption of the cage, either 'by hand or Aloy any proper system of gearing or belts and pulleys deriving motion from a'stam-engine or other motor, and .the vegetables introduced at one end of the cage are slowly carried toward the other end as theyr are liftedup by the wires or rods a a and thrown upon the spiral grates, which form inclined planes, down which they rolll obliquely to the axis of the cylinder while subject to the-washing action of the numerous streams or jets of water issuing from the perforationsff of the. hollow shaft.

The cage should preferably be arranged over a tank in which water is kept to such a depth lthat the lower 'par-t of the cylinder is always immersed.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The hollow perforated shaft B, receiviu g water at one end and delivering it in numerous jets or streams from its perforations, incom-l binatiou with the revolving cylindrical cage and the spiral grate or grates, or their equivalent, arranged between the said shaft and the circumference of the cage, substantially as herein described.

F. W. BACON.

Witnesses HENRY T. BROWN, J. W. GooMBs. 

